Deering v. . Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1971 · most notably Barson v. . Mulligan (1908), Matter of City of New York (1913)
29 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedDeering v. Riley
Relationships
Relies on The People v. . Kerr · Holloway v. . Southmayd · Vail v. . Long Island R.R. Co. · Stevens v. . Hauser · Hasbrouck v. . Bunce
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obtained only a right of way over the land taken”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mott v. . Eno
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.